Mumford and Sons

Scala, LondonAppearances are deceptive, whichever way you look at Mumford and Sons. For a start, frontman Marcus Mumford isn't nearly as grizzled as either his oak-aged voice or his band name suggests. Dressed in loose waistcoats and scrappy jackets, showing no fear of the moustache, the quartet wouldn't look out of place in a portrait of Depression-era America: in fact, they hail from the same London folk scene as Laura Marling and Noah and the Whale. Their fairly conventional folk instrumentat...

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